Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster


Daniel Webster contributed a large potion of the Civil War. To begin,

he was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire on January 18, 1782. His parents

were farmers so many people didn't know what to expect of him. Even though

his parents were farmers, he still graduated from Dartmouth College in

1801. After he learned to be a lawyer, Daniel Webster opened a legal

practice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1807.


Webster quickly became an experienced and very good lawyer and a

Federalist party leader. In 1812, Webster was elected to the U.S. House of

Representatives because of his opposition to the War of 1812, which had

crippled New England's shipping trade. After two more terms in the House,

Webster decided to leave the Congress and move to Boston in 1816. Over the

next 6 years, Webster won major constitutional cases in front of the

Supreme Court making him almost famous. Some of his most notable cases

were Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden, and McCulloch v.

Maryland. He made himself the nations leading lawyer and an outstanding

skilled public speaker or an orator. In 1823, Webster was returned to

Congress from Boston, and in 1827 he was elected senator from

Massachusetts.


New circumstances let Daniel Webster become a champion of American

nationalism. With the Federalist Party dead, he joined the National

Republican party, he joined with Westerner Henry Clay and then endorsing

federal aid for roads in the West. In 1828, since Massachusettses had

shifted the economic interest from shipping to manufacturing, Webster

decided to back the high-tariff bill of that year to help the small new

manufacturing businesses grow. Angry southern leaders condemned the

tariff, and South Carolina's John C. Calhoun argued that South Carolina had

the right to nullify or ignore the law. Replying to South Carolina's

Robert Hayne in a Senate debate in 1830, Webster triumphantly defended the

Union states by a very powerful but short speech. He said, "Liberty and

Union, now and forever, one and inseparable," made him a favorite and made

him well known among many people worldwide.


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